diff --git a/sphinx/builder.py b/sphinx/builder.py
index 07e646518..62b96a17f 100644
--- a/sphinx/builder.py
+++ b/sphinx/builder.py
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ class StandaloneHTMLBuilder(Builder):
                 self.indexer.load(f, self.indexer_format)
             finally:
                 f.close()
-        except (IOError, OSError, NotImplementedError):
+        except (IOError, OSError, NotImplementedError, ValueError):
             # we catch NotImplementedError here because if no simplejson
             # is installed the searchindex can't be loaded
             pass
diff --git a/sphinx/search.py b/sphinx/search.py
index 9237ddcfd..71e991dee 100644
--- a/sphinx/search.py
+++ b/sphinx/search.py
@@ -100,10 +100,13 @@ class IndexBuilder(object):
         if isinstance(format, basestring):
             format = self.formats[format]
         frozen = format.load(stream)
-        index2fn = frozen[0]
-        self._titles = dict(zip(frozen[0], frozen[1]))
+        # if an old index is present, we treat it as not existing.
+        if not isinstance(frozen, dict):
+            raise ValueError('old format')
+        index2fn = frozen['filenames']
+        self._titles = dict(zip(frozen['filenames'], frozen['titles']))
         self._mapping = dict((k, set(index2fn[i] for i in v))
-                             for (k, v) in frozen[2].iteritems())
+                             for (k, v) in frozen['terms'].iteritems())
 
     def dump(self, stream, format):
         """Dump the frozen index to a stream."""
diff --git a/sphinx/static/searchtools.js b/sphinx/static/searchtools.js
index 949201363..e5fee28e9 100644
--- a/sphinx/static/searchtools.js
+++ b/sphinx/static/searchtools.js
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ var Search = {
       // if we have still a valid result we can add it
       // to the result list
       if (valid)
-        results.push([filenames[file], titles[file], null]);
+        regularResults.push([filenames[file], titles[file], null]);
     }
 
     // delete unused variables in order to not waste
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ var Search = {
     });
 
     // combine both
-    results = results.concat(regularResults);
+    results = regularResults.concat(results);
 
     // print the results
     var resultCount = results.length;